Section 76
SEC. 76. The City Health Officer.&mdashThere shall be a City Health Officer who shall have charge of the health department and shall receive a salary of no less than eight thousand pesos per annum in accordance with the provisions of Republic Act Numbered four thousand four hundred seventy-seven, one half of which shall be paid by the National Government. He shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Have general supervision over the health and sanitary conditions of the city, including the cleaning of crematories, cemeteries, stockyards, slaughterhouses, and markets. (b) Execute and enforce all laws, ordinances and regulations relating to the public health. (c) Recommend to the City Council the passage of such ordinance as he may deem necessary for the preservation of the public health. (d) Cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, ordinances or regulations. (e) Make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city as shall be designated as sanitary police by the chief of Police. (f) Keep a civil register for the city and shall record therein all births, marriages and deaths with their respective dates. (g) Have control and supervision over puericulture centers and social services of the city. (h) Perform such other duties, not repugnant to law or ordinance, with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Director of Health Services shall direct.